LHAGVADORJ Enkhbat/b.1987/

Born in 1987 in Mongolia, he studied at the Rajiv Gandhi Arts and Industrial Design School and Fine Art at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture in Ulaanbaatar. During his academic years, he experimented with abstract, sur- realist and photo realist paintings, improving his techniques and compositions and searching for his own style. In 2010 Lkhagvadorj began producing black and white hyperrealist paintings, depicting homeless people who lived in the under- ground pipes and garbage dumps of Ulaanbaatar city. Their alienation from soci- ety and the extremely hazardous conditions they live in had greatly affected the artist. He depicted the everyday lives of homeless people on the garbage dumps and various drunk-men, sleeping on the streets and in market places, to appeal to the society at large. As his main characters are completely isolated and sepa- rated from customary society, Lkhagvadorj set the goal to let people from these different worlds meet each other through his work, with no fear and disgust. (by B. Tungalag)